I’m a college professor, so I really like it when people do their research before opening their mouths. Or putting their fingers on their keyboards in this case. The parties’ voting records don’t lie. And the fact is that the Democratic Party has been the party of civil rights since the middle of the century. It is a well-known fact that if Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.

http://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html